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Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes

First workshop “River Basin Commissions and Other Joint Bodies for Transboundary Water Cooperation: Legal and Institutional Aspects” Geneva, 23 and 24 September 2013

Reference materials and selected bibliography on the legal and institutional aspects of the establishment and operation

of joint bodies for transboundary water cooperation

10 September 2013

Publications available online

General ADB, General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design, Ministry of Water Resources of China (GIWP), UNESCO, WWF (2013) River Basin Planning. Principles, Procedures and Approaches for Strategic Basin Planning http://www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/medioambiente/onu/en/detallePer_Onu?id=684 (last visited 21/08/2013) Da Franca, N., Stephan, R.M., Donoso, M.C., Gonzalez, A., del Castillo -Laborde, L., Mileto, M., Aureli A. & Ugas L. (2008) Legal and institutional framework in the management of the transboundary aquifer systems in the Americas, OAS, UNESCO, ISARM program Vol. 2, Montevideo/Washington DC http://www.oas.org/dsd/isarm/Documents/English/ISARM%20Phase%20II%20-%20Legal%20and%20Institutional%20Framework%20in%20Manage.pdf (last visited 30/08/2013) Spanish version: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001589/158963s.pdf Dore, J., Robinson, J., Smith, M. (2010) Negotiate: reaching agreements over water, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/water/?4912/Negotiate--reaching-agreements-over-water (last visited 30/08/2013) German Foundation for International Development (GFID) (1998) Transboundary water management: experience of international river and lake commissions: Berlin recommendations http://www.bmu.de/fileadmin/bmu-import/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/petersberg_berlin_recommendations1998.pdf (last visited 21/08/2013)

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Global Water Partnership (GWP) & International Network of Basin Organizations (INBO) (2012) Handbook for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Transboundary Basins of Rivers, Lakes and Aquifers www.inbo-news.org/inbo/information-and-publications/handbook-for-integrated-water-resources-2021 (last visited 20/08/2013) GWP & INBO (2009), Handbook for Integrated Water Resources Management in Basins www.inbo-news.org/inbo/information-and-publications/handbook-for-integrated-water-resources (last visited 20/08/2013) French Agency for development, Collective work (2011) Toward a Joint Management of Transboundary Aquifer Systems, Coll. A savoir, Vol. 3 http://www.afd.fr/webdav/shared/PUBLICATIONS/RECHERCHE/Scientifiques/A-savoir/03-VA-A-Savoir.pdf (last visited 28/08/2013) Mechlem K. (2012) Groundwater governance: a global framework for country action, Thematic paper 6: Legal and institutional frameworks FAO, GEF, International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH), UNESCO-IHP, World Bank http://www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/medioambiente/onu/en/detallePer_Onu?id=586 (last visited 21/08/2013) Rieu-Clarke, A., Moynihan, R., & Magsig, B-O. (2012) UN Watercourses Convention User’s Guide, Dundee: CWLPS http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/Docs/unwaterconventionuseguide2012.pdf (last visited 21/08/2013) Rojas, G.A. & Iza, A. (2011) Governance of Shared Waters: Legal and Institutional Issues, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/publications/?8629/Governance-of-shared-waters--legal-and-institutional-issues (last visited 22/08/2013) Sadoff, C., Greiber, T., Smith, M. and Bergkamp, G. (2008) Share: Managing water across boundaries, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2008-016.pdf (last visited 20/08/2013) Subramanian, A., Brown, B., Wolf, A. (2012) Reaching across the waters: facing the risks of cooperation in international waters, World Bank http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/03/16588090/reaching-across-waters-facing-risks-cooperation-international-waters (last visited 21/08/2013) UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) (2013) Report: Water cooperation in action: approaches, tools, and processes http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/pdf/water_cooperation_in_action_approaches_tools_processes.pdf (last visited 3/09/2013) UNECE (2009) River basin commissions and other institutions for transboundary water cooperation http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=11628 (last visited 21/08/2013) UNECE (2011) Second Assessment of Transboundary Rivers, Lakes and Groundwaters www.unece.org/env/water/publications/pub/second_assessment.html (last visited 21/08/2013)

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UNECE (2013) Guide to Implementing the Water Convention http://www.unece.org/env/water/publications/pub.html (last visited 30/08/2013) UN-Water (2012) Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management. (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6) http://www.unwater.org/rio2012/report/ (last visited 21/08/2013) Vollmer, R., Ardakanian R., Hare, M., Leentvaar, J., van der Schaaf, C.,& Wirkus, L., UNESCO – WWAP, (2009) Institutional Capacity Development in Transboundary Water Management http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/institutional_capacity_development_in_transboundary_water_management/#.UhS9TW1GMw0 (last visited 21/08/2013) White & Case, GEF, UNDP (2011) International Waters: Review of Legal and Institutional Frameworks http://iwlearn.net/iw-projects/3340/reports/international-waters-review-of-legal-and-institutional-frameworks/view (last visited 21/08/2013) WWF & DFID (2010) International Architecture for Transboundary Water Resources Management: Policy Analysis and Recommendations http://www.wwf.org.uk/wwf_articles.cfm?unewsid=5091 Wouters,P., Vinogradov, S., Allan, A., Jone, P., Rieu-Clarke, A., (2005) An Integrated Assessment of Equitable Entitlement : The Legal Assessment Model, UNESCO, Paris http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001397/139794e.pdf Wouters, P., GWP (2013), International Law–Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation http://www.gwptoolbox.org/images/stories/gwplibrary/background/tec_17_final_final.pdf (last visited 21/08/2013)

Specific basins International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (2006) 15 Years of Managing The Danube River Basin, Vienna, Austria http://www.icpdr.org/main/publications/15-years-managing-danube-basin (last visited 22/08/2013) McIntyre, O. (2008) Enhancing Transboundary Cooperation in Water Management in the Prespa Lakes Basin (Greece, FYR Macedonia, Albania), UNDP http://iwlearn.net/iw-projects/1537/reports/enhancing-transboundary-cooperation-in-water-management-in-the-prespa-lakes-basin/view (last visited 3/09/2013) Strategic Foresight Group, (2011), The Blue Peace - Rethinking Middle East Water http://www.deza.admin.ch/en/Home/News/Close_up?itemID=198455 (last visited 30/08/2013) Yu W. (2008) Benefit Sharing in International Rivers: Findings from the Senegal River Basin, the Columbia River Basin and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, The World Bank, Africa Region http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2008/11/13/000334955_20081113045420/Rendered/PDF/464560NWP0P1121g0AFTWR0YU301PUBLIC1.pdf (last visited 22/08/2013)

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Pietersen, K., & Beekman, H., (2008) A comparative Study of the Linkages between River/Lake Basin Organizations and the Respective Cooperating National Governments in Seven Major African Basins, GIZ http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/documents?category=14 (last visited 30/08/2013) UN-ESCWA & BGR (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe) (2013) Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia, Beirut. http://waterinventory.org/sites/waterinventory.org/files/00-inventory-of-shared-water-resources-in-western-asia-web.pdf (last visited 6/09/2013)

Books & Book chapters

General Benvenisti, E. (2002) Sharing Transboundary Resources: International Law and Optimal Resource Use. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK http://www.questia.com/library/105423737/sharing-transboundary-resources-international-law (last visited 21/08/2013, free preview) Benvenisti, E. (2005) The Legal Framework of Joint Management Institutions for Transboundary Water Resources: Ancient Practices Informing Contemporary Regional Cooperation in Schmitz, P., Water and Sustainable Development, pp. 21-60 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/plpg/wasd/2005/00000001/00000029/art00003?crawler=true (last visited 21/08/2013, payment required) Caponera, D.A. (2007) Principles of Water Law and Administration: National and International, Second Edition. Taylor and Francis, London, UK. (payment required) Earle, A., Jägerskog, A. & Öjendal, J. (2010) Transboundary Water Management: Principles and Practice, Earthscan, London, UK http://books.google.ch/books?id=mrncsakXkwkC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last visited 21/08/2013, free preview) or http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849711388/ (last visited 21/08/2013, payment required) Dinar, A., Dinar, S., Mccaffrey, S., Mckinney, D. (2013) Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation (Second Edition), World Scientific Series on Energy and Resource Economics http://www.amazon.com/Bridges-Over-Water-Understanding-Transboundary/dp/9814436658/ (payment required) Schmeier, S. (2012) Governing International Watercourses: River Basin Organizations and the Sustainable Governance of Internationally Shared Rivers and Lakes, Routledge http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415623582/ (payment required) http://books.google.ch/books?id=96tuXYuUpMcC (free preview)

Specific basins

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Benvenisti, E. (2001) The Legal Framework of Joint Management Institutions for Transboundary Water Resources, in Feitelson, E. & Haddad, M., Management of Shared Groundwater Resources: The Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective, Kluwer Academic, Boston/Dordrecht/London, pp. 407-428. http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/hydrogeology/book/978-0-7923-7254-7 (last visited 21/08/2013, free preview) del Castillo-Laborde, L. (2013) The Guaraní Aquifer Framework Agreement (2010), in Boisson de Chazournes, L., Leb, C., Tignino, M., International Law And Freshwater - The Multiple Challenges, Ed. Edward Elgar, pp. 196-216 http://books.google.ch/books?id=I5-KeRxIEUYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last visited 30/08/2013, free preview) de los Cobos, G. (2013) Transboundary Water Resources and International Law: The Example of the Aquifer Management of the Geneva Region (Switzerland and France) in Boisson de Chazournes, L., Leb, C., Tignino, M., International Law And Freshwater - The Multiple Challenges, Ed. Edward Elgar, pp. 179-195 http://books.google.ch/books?id=I5-KeRxIEUYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last visited 30/08/2013, free preview) Mbengue, M. (2013) The Senegal River Legal Regime and its Contribution to the Development of the Law of International Watercourses in Africa in Boisson de Chazournes, L., Leb, C., Tignino, M., International Law And Freshwater - The Multiple Challenges, Ed. Edward Elgar, pp. 217-238 http://books.google.ch/books?id=I5-KeRxIEUYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (last visited 30/08/2013, free preview) Paisley, R. & Shurts, J. (2013) Columbia River Treaty: Past, Present and Future, in Bakker, Karen, Emma Norman and Alice Cohen, Water Without Borders? : Canada, the U.S. and Shared Water. University of Toronto Press http://www.utppublishing.com/Water-without-Borders-Canada-the-United-States-and-Shared-Waters.html (last visited 30/08/2013, payment required) Megdal, S. Varady, R. & Eden, S. (2012) Section 1: Water development: Infrastructure and institutions, in Shared Borders, Shared Waters: Israeli-Palestinian and Colorado River Basin Water Challenges, CRC Press http://books.google.ch/books?id=ggnP_cgaDkEC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr#v=onepage&q&f=false (last visited 4/09/2013, free preview)

Articles, Journals, Brochures, Reports

General Boisson de Chazournes, L. (2009) Freshwater and International Law: the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives. WWAP Side Publications Series: Insights. UNESCO, Paris, France. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001850/185080e.pdf (last visited 30/08/2013)

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Gerlak, Andrea (2007) Regional Water Governance and Institutional Arrangements around Transboundary Waters, University of Arizona. http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/7/9/0/2/pages179029/p179029-1.php (last visited 21/08/2013) Lautze, J., Wegerich, K., Kazbekov, J., & Yakubov, M. (2013) International river basin organizations: variation, options and insights, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 1 pp 30-42 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.747418#preview (last visited 29/08/2013, payment required) UNW-DPAC (2013) Promoting Water Cooperation: Legal frameworks and institutional arrangements, Information brief http://www.zaragoza.es/contenidos/medioambiente/onu/947-eng.pdf (last visited 21/08/2013) UNW-DPAC (2013) Alternative Dispute Resolution, Information brief http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/pdf/info_brief_alternative_dispute.pdf (last visited 3/09/2013) UNW-DPAC (2013) Information Sharing and Joint Assessments, Information brief http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/water_cooperation_2013/pdf/info_brief_information_sharing.pdf (last visited 3/09/2013)

Specific basins Abseno, M. (2013) The influence of the UN Watercourses Convention on the development of a treaty regime in the Nile River basin, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 2, pp. 192-203 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.782798?journalCode=rwin20#.Uib4-T8mZv5 (last visited 30/08/2013, payment required) Andersen, I., Dione, O., Jarosewich-Holder, M., & Olivry, J. (2005) The Niger River basin: a vision for sustainable management: directions in development, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank (Chapter 4) http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/01/6462671/niger-river-basin-vision-sustainable-management (last visited 21/08/2013) Azarva, J. (2011) Conflict on the Nile : International Watercourse Law and the Elusive Effort to Create a Transboundary Water Regime in the Nile Basin, in Temple Int'l & Comp. Law Journal, Vol. 25(2), pp. 457-498 https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=25+Temp.+Int%27l+%26+Comp.+L.J.+457&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=b299fdc81a3103851f32e18ba43b2ceb (payment required) Browder, G. (2000) An analysis of the negotiations for the 1995 Mekong agreement. International Negotiation Vol. 5, Num. 2, pp. 237-261. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/iner/2000/00000005/00000002/00279024 (payment required) Bernauer, T. & Siegfried, T. (2006) Estimating the performance of international regulatory regimes: methodology and empirical application to international water management in the Naryn Syr Darya

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basin. ETH Zurich, Centre for Comparative and International Studies and Centre for Environmental Decisions. No 16 http://www.cis.ethz.ch/publications/WP_16_Bernauer.pdf (last visited 21/08/2013) Chen, H., Rieu-Clarke, A. & Wouters, P. (2013) Exploring China's transboundary water treaty practice through the prism of the UN Watercourses Convention, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 2 pp 217-230 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508060.2013.782134#.UibwsT8mZv5 (last visited 4/09/2013) Eckstein, G. (2011) Buried Treasure or Buried Hope?: The Status of Mexico-U.S. Transboundary Aquifers and International Law, International Community Law Review, Vol. 13(3), pp. 273-290 http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/articles/Eckstein-Mex-US_ICLR.pdf (last visited 4/09/2013) Garane, A. (2008) UN Watercourses Convention: Applicability and Relevance in West Africa, WWF, GWP, Green Cross, IHP HELP http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/WWF/RA_West_Africa.pdf (last visited 4/09/2013) French version: http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/WWF/RA_West_Africa.pdf Hey, E. (2009) Multi-dimensional Public Governance Arrangements for the Protection of the Transboundary Aquatic Environment in the European Union: The Changing Interplay between European and Public International Law 6(1) International Organization Law Review 2009, pp. 191-223 http://brill.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/iolr/2009/00000006/00000001/art00005 (last visited 4/09/2013) McIntyre, O. (2011) Assessment of Implications for Management of Cross-Border Waters of United Kingdom Accession to the U.N. Watercourses Convention. WWF-UK http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/implications_watercourses_convention.pdf (last visited 4/09/2013) Malzbender, D. & Earle, A. (2008) The Impact and Implications of the Adoption of the 1997 UN Watercourse Convention for Countries in Southern Africa, WWF, GWP http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/WWF/RA_SADC_states.pdf (last visited 3/09/2013) Rahaman M. (2009) Principles of transboundary water resources management and Ganges treaties: an analysis. Water Resources Development Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 159–173 http://internationalwaterlaw.org/bibliography/articles/general/Rahaman-Ganges-Water_Res_Devel.pdf (last visited 22/08/2013) Paisley, R. & Henshaw, T. (2013) Transboundary governance of the Nile River Basin: Past, present and future, in Environmental Development, Vol. 7, pp. 59-71 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464513000614 (last visited 4/09/2013) Sarfraz, H. (2013) Revisiting the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, in Water International Vol. 38, Issue 2 pp 214-216 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508060.2013.784494#.UiCgkT8mZv4 (last visited 30/08/2013, payment required)

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Websites CapNet, an international network for capacity building in IWRM: www.cap-net.org (last visited 20/08/2013) Global Water Partnership: www.gwpforum.org (last visited 21/08/2013)

GWP Toolbox: Integrated Water Resources Management: www.gwptoolbox.org Transboundary organisations for water resource management (see Related cases) http://www.gwptoolbox.org/index.php?option=com_tool&id=10

IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science www.dundee.ac.uk/water (last visited 22/08/2013) International Network of Basin Organizations: www.inbo-news.org (last visited 20/08/2013)

Central and Eastern Europe Network of Basin Organisations: www.ceenbo.org (last visited 20/08/2013) Latin American Network of Basin Organisations: www.ana.gov.br/relob/?lang=es and www.rebob.org.br (last visited 20/08/2013) Mediterranean Network of Basin Organisations: www.remoc.org (last visited 20/08/2013) Network of Asian River Basin Organisations: www.narbo.jp (last visited 20/08/2013)

International Office for Water www.oieau.fr/?lang=en (last visited 20/08/2013) IUCN Bridge www.iucn.org/about/union/donors/?11373/BRIDGE-project-Planning-for-2013

IUCN Water Law and Governance Platform www.waterlawandgovernance.org IUCN Environmental Law Centre www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/environmental_law

UNECE www.unece.org/env/water.html (last visited 22/08/2013) UNESCO IHP From Potential Conflict to Co-operation Potential (PCCP): Case studies http://webworld.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/pubs/case_studies.shtml (last visited 22/08/2013) UN Watercourses Convention Online User’s Guide http://www.unwatercoursesconvention.org/ (last visited 30/08/2013) World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/water/wwap/case-studies/ (last visited 30/08/2013)

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Regional and national research programmes network on IWRM: www.iwrm-net.org (last visited 20/08/2013) Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation, Oregon State University www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu (last visited 22/08/2013)

Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/publications/atlas/index.html International Freshwater Treaties Database http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/interfreshtreatdata.html International River Basin Register http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/interriverbasinreg.html International River Basin Organization (RBO) Database http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/research/RBO/index.html Case Studies - Water Conflict Resolution http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/research/case_studies/index.html \

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List of web-sites of River Basin Commissions and Other Joint Bodies

Organisation Countries Website Region

Inco-Maputo Tripartite Permanent Technical Committee

Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland

http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/120 Africa

International Commission of Congo-Oubangui-Sangha

Cameroun, Central African Republic, Congo, Congo, D.R. Congo

http://www.cicos.info/ Africa

Joint Authority for the Management of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System

Chad, Egypt, Libya, Sudan http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/ih/IHS_projects_nubian_efforts.html Africa

Kunene Permanent Joint Technical Commission

Angola, Namibia http://www.kunenerak.com/ http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/63

Africa

Lake Chad Basin Commission Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Niger, Nigeria

http://www.lakechadbc.org/ http://lakechad.iwlearn.org

Africa

Lake Tanganyika Authority Burundi, D.R. Congo, Tanzania, Zambia

http://lta.iwlearn.org/ Africa

Lake Victoria Basin Commission Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda

http://www.lvbcom.org/ Africa

Lesotho Highlands Development Authority

Lesotho, South Africa http://www.lhwp.org.ls/ Africa

Limpopo Water Course Commission

Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe

http://www.limcom.org/ http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/60

Africa

Niger Basin Authority Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria

http://www.abn.ne/ Africa

Nile Basin Initiative Burundi, DR Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

http://www.nilebasin.org/ Africa

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Orange-Senqu River Commission Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa http://www.orasecom.org http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/62

Africa

Permanent Okavango River Basin Water Commission

Angola, Botswana, Namibia http://www.okacom.org/ Africa

Ruvuma Joint Water Commission

Mozambique, Tanzania http://www.icp-confluence-sadc.org/rbo/65 Africa

Sahara and Sahel Observatory

Algeria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Italy, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, Soudan, Switzerland, Tunisia, Uganda – AMU, CARI, CILSS, CEN-SAD, FAO, IGAD, LCBC,UNCCD, UNESCO

www.oss-online.org Africa

Senegal River Basin Development Organisation

Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal

http://www.omvs.org Africa

Volta Basin Authority Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Togo

www.abv-volta.org/ http://gefvolta.iwlearn.org/

Africa

Zambezi Watercourse Commission

Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

http://www.zambezicommission.org/ Africa

Indo-Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission

India, Bangladesh http://www.jrcb.gov.bd/index.html Asia

Mekong River Commission Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, Viet Nam

http://www.mrcmekong.org/ Asia

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Commission for the Implementation and the Development of the Albufeira Convention

Portugal, Spain http://portaldaagua.inag.pt/PT/SectorAgua/Europa/Convencoes/Pages/default.aspx http://www.cadc-albufeira.org/ (not working)

ECE

Commission on the Use of Water Management Facilities of Intergovernmental Status on the Rivers Chu and Talas

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan http://www.talaschu.org/ ECE

Drin Core Group - Global Water Partnership-Mediterranean (GWP-Med)

Albania, Greece, FYR Macedonia, Kosovo (UN administered), Montenegro

http://www.twrm-med.net/southeastern-europe/supported-processes-and-projects/drin-river-basin

ECE

Finnish-Norwegian Transboundary Water Commission

Finland, Norway http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?contentid=118334&lan=en ECE

International Commission for the Meuse/Maas

Belgium (Brussels-Capital region, Flemish region, Walloon region), France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands

http://www.meuse-maas.be/ ECE

International Commission for the Protection of Italo-Swiss Waters

Italy, Switzerland http://www.cipais.org/ ECE

International Commission for the Protection of Lake Constance

Austria, Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg, Bavaria), Switzerland

http://www.igkb.de/ ECE

International Commission for the Protection of Lake Geneva

France, Switzerland http://www.cipel.org/sp/ ECE

International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia,

http://www.icpdr.org/ ECE

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Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine, European Union

International Commission for the Protection of the Elbe

Germany, Czech Republic http://www.ikse-mkol.de/ ECE

International Commission for the Protection of the Oder against Pollution

Germany, Czech Republic, Poland

http://www.mkoo.pl/ ECE

International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine

Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland, European Union

http://www.iksr.org/ ECE

International Commission for the Scheldt

Belgium (Brussels-Capital region, Flemish region, Walloon region), France, Netherlands

http://www.isc-cie.com/ ECE

International Commissions for the Protection of Mosel and Saar Against Pollution

For Mosel: France, Germany, and Luxembourg. For Saar: France, Germany

http://www.iksms-cipms.org ECE

Ems-Dollard estuary Germany, Netherlands http://www.ems-eems.de/ ECE

International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

http://www.ec-ifas.org/ ECE

International Sava River Basin Commission

Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia

http://www.savacommission.org/ ECE

Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

http://www.icwc-aral.uz/ ECE

Joint Finnish-Russian Commission on the Utilization of Frontier Waters

Finland, Russian Federation http://www.rajavesikomissio.fi/ ECE

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Administrative Commission for the Uruguay River

Argentine, Uruguay http://www.caru.org.uy LAC

Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela

http://www.otca.info/ LAC

Bi-National Authority of Lake Titicaca

Bolivia, Peru http://www.alt-perubolivia.org LAC

Bi-national Commission for the Development of the upper Bermejo River and Grande de Tarija River Basins

Argentina, Bolivia http://www.cobinabe.org LAC

Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee of La Plata Basin Countries

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay

http://www.cicplata.org/ LAC

International Commission on Boundary and Water between Mexico and Guatemala, and Mexico and Belize

Mexico, Guatemala, and Mexico, Belize

http://www.sre.gob.mx/cilasur/ LAC

Joint Commission of the Parana River

Argentine, Paraguay http://www.comip.org.ar LAC

Mixed Technical Commission of Salto Grande

Argentina, Uruguay http://www.saltogrande.org/ LAC

Great Lakes Commission Eight States of the United States. Associate members: Ontario and Quebec

http://www.glc.org/ North America

International Boundary and Water Commission between United States and Mexico

Mexico, United States http://www.ibwc.state.gov/ http://www.sre.gob.mx/cilanorte/ North America

International Joint Commission Canada, United States http://www.ijc.org/ North America